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Link: Tenyi Swordsoul Deck 2023
Tenyi Swordsoul deck has been quite solved ever since around 2 weeks after Mo Ye and Longyuan came out in Burst of Destiny. But I have a particular way of playing the deck, and that is very poorly. I am absolutely not a top player, My max rank on nexus is plat after all. I am hardly an expert, but I have played Swordsoul for around 5.5 months now, and a few things that have had me see competitive success to a degree are, knowing how Chixiao actually can resolve and the power of single negate boards against decks with a singular chokepoint, such as Kashtira, or Purrely.
Essentially, with Swordsoul, you have to know when to use your Chixiao, and effective resource management, a thing that my ADHD brain struggled to comprehend for a long time (5 months of playing Subterror) over that time you start to learn the matchups that decks have against the deck you are playing. When I started playing this deck, I had to learn how to break Spright boards without going second staples in the main deck. And a few weeks later, I had to learn how to deal with Ishizu Tear, using cards such as Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign – Qixing Longyuan or Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign – Chengying. And how the GY is so incredibly imperative to most decks.
My first build of this deck was playing 1 copy of both Macro Cosmos and Dimension Fissure, due to the popularity of IshTear. The copies of Rivalry of Warlords are there to deal with exactly Kashtira and Spright builds. No matter your opinion of them, floodgates are needed to help deal with some of the formats best decks, whether you like it or not. I have revised this build around 7 times now, and I can confidently say that this build is still hot garbage even to this day.